"Alright if you want your daughter and sister to remain among the living, you would be wise to pay attention, Elsa" Anthrax began while holding Rosetta's arm.
"Release her!" Elsa barked.
"…if you insist" He smirked while shoving Rosetta to the ground. The little girl was just about to make impact when The Queen dived to catch her daughter. Elsa immediately began to scan her little girl for any signs of injury.
"Oh thank goodness you're ok" Elsa sighed while she and her daughter hugged.
"I'm coming for you!" Anthrax snickered to the small girl. Rosetta began to cry in fear. Elsa held her and she buried her face in the Queen shoulder.
"You both realize that can't even hurt her? I would have broken her fall with my powers." Anthrax said coolly while eating an apple.
"What is the next task?" The Queen asked while soothing her sobbing daughter.
"Ok doll- face, there is a lion in a cave south of here called the nemean lion-"Anthrax was finished by Elsa.
"It has the strength of ten men, a roar that can break glass, and a hide so dense that no weapon can penetrate it" Elsa said. Rosetta stopped crying at this point.
"Your task is to kill that lion." Anthrax ordered.
"That's not possible!" Elsa countered while holding her child protectively. Anthrax drew his blade and pointed it at Rosetta:
"I DIDN'T SAY THAT I WOULDN'T TRY!" Elsa said while still embracing Rosetta.
"Good girl. Now go." Anthrax commanded. Elsa needed no further dismissal and she and her daughter fled from his presence, not entirely trusting the contract. At the cave entrance, hugged her daughter once again
"In case I don't come back…..I love you sweetie" she kissed her adoptive child on the forehead and on the cheek before turning to Anna.
"I wish I had more time to spend with you as a sister." Elsa congratulated her baby sister..However the horses were spooked by the blood curdling cries of a large beast…it was at least twice the size of a regular lion. The horses bolted and left the three girls alone. A small hole caught Elsa's eye. I was just big enough for Rosetta, but too small for the lion to get her. Elsa ordered Rosetta to go in the hole. Rosetta refused to leave her mother. The beast was coming out and Elsa knew that she didn't have time to spend argue.
"That was not a request go!" Elsa said before lightly pushing Rosetta in the direction of the refuge. Her daughter was brought to her senses and she made a beeline for the hole. She got into it just before the lion reached them. It knocked Elsa on her back. Elsa rolled out of the way of the monster's paw before it could slash her. Elsa made an ice sword and attempted to plunge it into the beast's thick hide. But it merely bounced off of the surface of her target. The lion swiped at her and only this time, it cut deep into her arm. She made yet another effort to impale the ferocious feline, but this time the blade shattered in two. Elsa looked at the now broken sword and let out a nervous laugh before running backwards, helplessly pointing the blade at her foe. The beast was about to pounce on top of her when Allan cried out.
"Jump up onto its back and use an ice chain to strangle it!" Allan ordered. Elsa began to agree and she leapt onto the lion just as it pounced. She grabbed onto its fur as it wildly tried to remove the dead weight on its back. She conjured a chain of ice and looped it around the lion's neck. The snow Queen pulled with all of her might. The awesomely strong creature was soon rendered gasping for breath. It crashed on the ground. A now exhausted Queen Elsa tried to get back on the grass. She fell to the soil now below. As she rubbed her back, she took a peek at her handiwork. The Lion was now dead, but she needed proof.
"Now that the lion's dead its fur can be peeled off. There are certain areas that can now be penetrated…but the rest of it is still rock solid" Allan told the Queen. Elsa got an idea as she sliced the vulnerable areas to make a skin.
"how did you slay the nemean lion?" Anthrax gasped in utter disbelief.
"Trade secret. This is proof of task completion is it not?" Elsa demanded.
" I supposed it is. You'll get your next task tomorrow. With that Elsa carried her little daughter to bed and sang her to sleep
